Executive Assistant Resume Template — ATS Admin and PA CV
“Highly organised, detail-oriented professional with excellent communication skills” appears on almost every EA resume, which means it distinguishes none of them.
The job is judgement and volume, and both can be counted. Who you support and how senior. How many meetings a week. How many trips a year. How much you process. These files ask for those numbers in every prompt, because they are the only part of the page a recruiter cannot get from anyone else.
What is in it
- Executive assistant (.docx) — one to two pages. Summary, core skills, a systems section of its own, experience, education and certifications. Bullet prompts ask for diary volume across time zones, trips a year including visas, the budget or company card you hold, and the one thing you own end to end.
- Admin and career change (.docx) — one page, for admin assistants, receptionists, coordinators and people moving up. Systems near the top where they get screened, and prompts to lead with the coordination that was already in your old job — retail and hospitality included, because those are volume, judgement and difficult people.
- Start Here guide (.pdf) — which file is yours, the five numbers to find before you open anything, a grouped keyword list, and weak and stronger bullets side by side describing the same week.
- Plain text version (.txt) — for portals that strip formatting.
Say who you support, and how senior
Supporting a founder is a different job from supporting a board of nine, and both are different from supporting a department. The summary prompt makes you name it in the first line, because that single fact tells a recruiter more about your level than any adjective can.
Systems where they get screened
Concur, Coupa, Workday, Navan, Salesforce, the calendar platform you actually live in — as plain text in their own block, because a filter matches them literally.
What you need
Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Pages or LibreOffice. No design app and no subscription.
Four files, on your Downloads page the moment you buy. Buy it on Etsy — $9
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Would you rather I rewrote it for you?
These are templates you fill in yourself. If you would rather hand the whole thing over, the ATS Resume Rewrite is made to order and comes back within 48 hours.
The other resume and CV templates are on the ATS Resume & CV Templates page.